On the Agenda – Week 10, 2018

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9 maart 2018 | This week's On the Agenda with Xi Jinping using Chinese students abroad, the crisis in Morocco's education system, the European ambition for 100& open access in 2020 in peril, elite universities losing their scientific stars through Brexit and all on the strikes at British universities.

Oxford University (photo: Marlon Benavides)

Take 1 –Education

When Xi Jinping visited Washington in 2015, hundreds of Chinese students lined the streets, carrying banners and flags to welcome him. It was a remarkable display of seemingly spontaneous patriotism.

Take 2 –Research

The European Union is set to miss its target of having all scientific research freely available by 2020, as progress towards open access hits a “plateau” because of deeper problems in how research is assessed.https://t.co/S1MzzPrc6w

Take 3 –British university strikes

The fallout from UK higher education’s pension strike threatens to poison relations between university leaders, their staff and students, academics have warned, while it has also revealed significant divisions among vice-chancellors https://t.co/AYDNmPPFhG